I Smoke Weed, But I Don't Do Drugs

[Greenday]

This one cracks me up every time. A dating site I was on, I found a lot of people that on their profile put they never do drugs. But there's a question on weed that they answer that they smoke weed sometimes or occasionally.

Come on, really? Stop lying to yourself. Weed is a drug. Either you do drugs or you don't. Don't lie to people because it'd be a big surprise to go on a date with someone and find out they do drugs when they said they didn't.

[Andara Bledin]

Hey, put it in the same column as "I drink, but I don't do drugs."

That one always cracks me up in its sheer ignorance.

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[Greenday]

There's always been a clear separation between drugs and alcohol though. People who abuse alcohol are alcohols, not druggies.

[Rageaholic]

That reminds me: "It's not fast food, it's Wendy's!".

[telecom_goddess]

I gotta agree with this...if you do weed you are doing drugs. No matter how you try to justify it...it counts as a drug. It's an illegal substance.

Now prescription meds on the other hand is not the same as "doing drugs" unless you are getting pain meds from several drs just for the purpose of abusing them.

[Greenday]

Now prescription meds on the other hand is not the same as "doing drugs" unless you are getting pain meds from several drs just for the purpose of abusing them.

Or from friends.

[Ginger Tea]

If it's taxed then its not a drug, even though it is, but hey it's not one of those bad drugs, you know, the type we don't get tax dollars off. Bill Hicks probably had a skitch on this worded better.

I do do drugs
I drink Crabbies*, JDnCoke and coke by itself and coffee, although the coffee at work is more like cafinated gravy it tastes shite so I have to kill it with sugar.

*Alchoholic ginger beer, been around since 1801 but I found out about it october last year

[blas87]

It cracks me up too, GreenDay.

I have heard this from just about everyone I know at one point..."I smoke weed every once in a while" or "I buy Adderall sometimes for when I go out" and it's always followed with "But I'm NOT a druggie!"

No, no, of course you aren't.

The last time I caught my bf in a lie about smoking pot (he did a miserable job covering up the smell....he had smoked it sometime right before I'd came over and his room smelled like flowers AND pot), he said "What's the big deal, it's just a little pot!"

The big deal is that you go around telling people you don't do drugs and haven't in a long time, that's what the big deal is.

[Andara Bledin]

There's always been a clear separation between drugs and alcohol though. People who abuse alcohol are alcohols, not druggies.

It's a false separation.

I always get a good laugh when alcohol abusers are compared favorably to other recreational drug users who are not abusers, but who happen to partake in substances that aren't available legally.

My uncle, who did a great many different substances in his day, managed to kill himself abusing caffeine.

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[Jack]

his room smelled like flowers AND pot

I lol'd

This seems like another form of the argument over whether pot counts as a Real Drug. I imagine when most people say "I smoke weed but don't do drugs" they are referring to hard drugs, or drugs that in their perception will harm them or their lifestyle.

[blas87]

Alcohol and drugs are different, but the same.

Alcoholism actually tears apart more families and relationships than drugs, but that's probably an obvious fact. It shouldn't over-shadow that there are drug addicts who are destroying their own lives and everyone else's around them, though.

But then again, I know people who drink too much and do drugs, so they can't really make excuses or defend themselves.

[Eisa]

Yeah, alcohol is technically a "drug," but I'd still let someone say that they drink but don't do drugs. 'Cause I can say that myself. I drink alcohol every once in a great while, but I have never done pot or anything else.

Also, the hypocrisy of smoking pot and saying you don't do drugs amuses me. Alcohol you can get away with. But pot? Really?

I hate the smell of pot, my ex's roommate smoked it and it was gross [he also only had one lung, so it was stupid as well ], and my friend's roommate smoked pot. I hated visiting her apartment because it would just linger throughout the whole apartment, and it made me shudder and go ew.

[blas87]

Well, imagine what it's like when you or someone you live with takes a big nasty shit, then attempts to cover it by turning on the vents and uses an entire can of air spray..............bf basically cloud-nine'd his bedroom, then attempted to Febreeze the smell away.

I know exactly what pot smells like. Just because I no longer smoke it doesn't mean I forgot that smell.

Besides, any time he smells cigarette smoke on me, he flips out. Oh, but pot is so much safer and cleaner. No, it can still give you lung and throat cancer, and it wreeks and it makes you stink, same as ciggs. Give it up.

[Andara Bledin]

Oh, but pot is so much safer and cleaner. No, it can still give you lung and throat cancer, and it wreeks and it makes you stink, same as ciggs.

Both are correct. Well, smoking won't actually give anyone cancer; instead it greatly increases the chances of developing cancer.

I think the big problem with this is that nobody really agrees about the definition of "drugs." Do you mean hard drugs, or illegal drugs, or recreational drugs other than the base 3 (alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine), or all recreational drugs? Add in the question of where to place prescription drugs, and it's just a mess.

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[Boozy]

That reminds me: "It's not fast food, it's Wendy's!".

That's true, though. The service at my local Wendy's is slow as shit.